Rent-a-Cat

Rent-a-Cat (レンタネコ, 2012) is a Japanese drama-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Naoko Ogigami follows an eccentric young woman who pushes a cart full of cats along the riverbank and rents them out to lonely older residents — one cat per one quiet ache.

Mikako Ichikawa plays the lead: a woman with no family and no close friends, only a houseful of cats and an oddly practical talent for matching each one to the right stranger. The film is unhurried and drily funny in ways that sneak up on you; it treats loneliness as something ordinary to be lived with rather than solved. Stream Rent-a-Cat (2012) on iFILM.